St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-22

The Redfieid Dispatch is evidently in lint
with good sense in this: 'If the divis
lonlSts and other cranks IN Dakota woul(
keep still little while this territory would bt
III FAIR way to become a state two years
hence, but if they continue to howl againS
the Springer bill there's no telling how Ions
| they can keep Dakota a territory"
The Pierre Free Press is not happy over
this outlook: With Mathews a member o.
the capital commission, president of tht
council and Hughes, another member of tha
| commission, chairman of the committee Oh
judiciary, the outlook for legislation nullify
| ing any of the acts of that commission is no
very brilliant, to say the least.
The first serious case of freezing in the
three or four years that Towner county ha:
been settled was during the late cold snap
Nels Sorenson started to walk home frou
Cando at 10 o'clock at night, fifteen miles
and reached the mail ranch, twelve miles
with hands, feet and legs badly frozen. He
| was carried home and will, no doubt, lose legs
and arms.
Samuel Reed. the former Illinois editor an6
statesman, now bonanza farmer near Blunt
elaoorates the theory that the drouth in that
! section is due to the fact that the vast Sioux
reservation is unsettled and uncutivated, an6
that the opening of the reservation is a neces.
| sity TO the country east of it.
Those in the North so happily constituted
| as to find good in everything in Dakota, pre-
dict that the unusual depth of snow will in
sure fine crop of wheat as the moisture will
obvlate drought. This theory would be better
! If the snow did not pretty much all melt and
run off before the ground thaws.
Parties who have been looking the matter
| over say that President Cleveland has ap-
! pointed to Office double the number of resi-
| dents OF the territory in two years that the
| Republicans did in the twenty-four years
previous. 1t would look as if the members OF
that party should feel resigned.
The Inkster Review in Grand Forks county,
| says many of the farmers in that section Suf-
fered so from hail and drouth that they
will be unable to procure seed wheat this
year without aid. They are in debt, TOO, but
a good crop will lift them out of trouble and
enable them to hold their farms.
The Congregationalists have college at
! Gankton, now in the throes OF the Andover
controversy, and are about locating one in
| the Red river region, and the association in
the central region are endeavoring to estab-
| lish third at Redfed. Dakota promises to
| have large crop Of colleges.
Some of the extremists in the South are
| hopeful that Mr.. Church will leave his fam.
| lily at Huron and only stay at Bismarck as
much as his Official duties require. They i'm
| agine that there is sort of political vortex
| there which draws in men from the South too
| long exposed to its destinations.
| There is a scheme on foot to rearrange por-
| tionS Of the counties of De Smet, B anson,
Rolette, McHenry, Bottineau and Sheridan,
as to make new county named Church, and
make the railroad towns of Rugby, Towner
and Minor county seals. Several of these
| counties are not yet organized.
| 1T is related of popular physician in Bot
tineau county that he started out hunting
| deer recently and tracked a couple in the
| snow all day, coming up with them at night
when they proved to be sheep. He did not
| kill them, and thinks he will next time be able
| to tell the track of sheep.
The w. CT Z. of Grant county pleaded their
cause in person before the county board and
| secured notable victory, the board refusing
| to grant saloon license. The women will now
| fight for the two towns of Milbank aud Big
! Stone, not covered by this order, and they are
confident of success.
In the opinion of all Democrats. Gov.
| Church will carry courtesy to the extreme, if,
| to obge his predecessor, he leaves the best
office in his gift in possession of the editor OF
| the leading Republican daily of the South.
| There are just as clever and capable Demo
! Gratis.
| There is a good deal of regret at the sus-
pension OF the jamestown Daily Capital, one
| of the brightest and best edited OF Dakota
papers. Judge Warnoeh will continue on the
weekly. and hopes for the early advent of the
! time when jamestown can sustain two daily
| papers.
The Redfield Journal is of the opinion that
| in the improbable event of the attempt to
run the little state aud it's collision with the
| United States, the men now so brave ana
| hoiSterous would make the most rapid tracks
| ever seen in Dakota for the tallest timber.
The Bangor Rustler says: Having made
! careful examination Of the Springer bill for
| tie admission Of the territory as a whole,
| with the exception of the section requiring
| the consolidation of counties, we find il an ad-
mirable bill and hope it will become a law
At the meeting of the Farmers Mutual
| Protective association at Planknton last
week, it was unanimously resolved that the
| signs are all right for bigger crops in 1887
than in any recent year. The resolution was
| largely based upon the heavy snow fall.
The Yankton Telegram, whose editor is
| venerable for age, has discovered that the
| toOog, which is now the craze in Dakota is
| more dangerous TO morals and limbs than the
skating rink, base ball and ball rooms. He is
not happy, although good, old man.
Turner county claims to have ghost, the
spirit of old Jacob Zwicher, which goes round
with lantern, just as Jacob used to do, aud
frighteus timd people who see him. One man
| is said to have made half mile in ABOUT one
| minute, the ghost following.
! The appointment of James H. Moulton. of
| Yankton, assistant warden of the United
| States prison at Sioux Falls by Marshal Ma
| rata is pronounced an admirable selection 10y
all who are acquainted with Mr.. NJ. The pay
| is 81, 900 year and living.
| Petitions are being numerously signed tC
| the legislature in Hyde and other counties to
pass a law allowing the people of the entire
| territory 10 vote on prohibition, but it is more
likely to be left 10 the vote OF each locality.
William Farnum, one of the largest breed
| ers OF PercherOn horses and Shorthorn cattle
| in Madison county, New York, lately visited
| Hanson county and was so well pleased that
he will return there in the spring to invest.
In Bottineau county, which was organized
in 1884, there is 1900 population and only
| twenty-five sections of land proved up and
| taxable. so that it is difficult to raise much
| money to meet the expenses of the county.
In some OF the southern counties petitions
have been numerously signed asking congress
! TO pass the Blair educational bill. A much
| better measure for Dakota would be an act
allowing the leasing of school lands.
A lady in Turner county, Mrs. Ernest Rob
inson, whose mind had become somewhat
affected by fits. recently committed suicide
| by taking three ounces of muriatic acid, and
lived nineteen hours in intense agony.
The Mibauk Review is putting in operation
| the experiment often threatened by country
| papers, of publishing the names of those who
do not pay as dead beats. The editor has
| taken out additional life insurance.
AS it is given out that a majority of the
| members of the legislature are members of
the Farmers alliance, if the objects sought
| by that organization are not attained there
will be a loss of confidence in it.
As Yankton cannot regain the capital, it is
| giving its attention vigorously to an anti.
| drinking movement. 1t is a moral suasion
effort that seeks to make it unpopular to in
dulge in saloon beverages.
Union comfy parties are gathering names
TO petition to Gov. Church TO appoint Curt
Winsor, of Sioux Falls, attorney general. II
is claimed that he is even a better poker
| pla, er than Judge Spencer.
The militia are all enthusiastic in favor OF
| the proposition in the legislature to omit the
| encampment the next two years, and send all
| the companies to the national encampment al